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MechJam 2021 is a game jam for creating video games featuring or based around mechs or mecha. As Wikipedia puts it: 

The term mecha (Japanese: メカ, Hepburn: meka) may refer to both scientific ideas and science fiction genres that center on giant robots or machines (mechs) controlled by people. Mechas are typically depicted as humanoid mobile robots. The term was first used in Japanese (meka) after shortening the English loanword mekanikaru (メカニカル, 'mechanical'), but the meaning in Japanese is more inclusive, and "robot" (robotto) or "giant robot" is the narrower term.

These machines vary greatly in size and shape, but are distinguished from vehicles by their humanoid or biomorphic appearance and size—bigger than a human. Different subgenres exist, with varying connotations of realism. The concept of Super Robot and Real Robot are two such examples found in Japanese anime and manga. The term may also refer to real world piloted humanoid or non-humanoid robotic platforms, either currently in existence or still on the drawing board (i.e. at the planning or design stage). Alternatively, in the original Japanese context of the word, "mecha" may refer to mobile machinery/vehicles (including aircraft) in general, manned or otherwise.

Your game can be any genre, if you want to make a mech platformer, mecha text-based adventure or a mech simulator go ahead. No genre is off limits. The only fundamental rule is you include a mech in your game. 


- Make your game free so everyone can vote on it. You can charge for it after the voting period if you desire to do so.

- Make your project within the jam time.   

- Be respectful and not overly offensive, if your game contains 18+ content please make a note of it on the game page.

- Respect the community.

- You can work in a team if you desire to do so.

- Any engine is allowed.

- Please do not submit any projects made outside of the jam.

- Assets not made yourself are allowed but please credit the original creator.

- Have fun!



Submissions(36)

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Solve a murder using your deductive skills as a rocket-powered mechashark.
Adventure
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Your origin? Unknown. Your purpose? To save small creatures from an alien invasion.
Adventure
A snow-shovelling mech and its prisoner operator argue about how much work they have left to do
Interactive Fiction
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Take control of the latest generation of aqua-skating war machines.
Shooter
Bullet-hell featuring a flying mech
Action
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Small fps with grapple gun and mecha spiders for the mecha gamejam
Shooter
A short bullet hell shmup
Shooter
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Piloting through command line - a short experiment
Short horror-influenced Mech Shooter
Shooter
A game about a girl a mech and a long forgotten factory
Adventure
Review and redesign Mech schematics, to keep the flyboys from blowing themselves up!
Puzzle
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Fight to reclaim your homelands, or die trying!
Action
Help Nyakiru to kill all the aliens . Use the guns and the Mecha
Action
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Take down a mech single-handedly!
Action
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is it a fairy? is it a mushroom? i am mech! what is this new bullet hell?
Action
Battlebots....in SPAAACCEE. With mechs!
Strategy
Explore an ancient archipelago on an alien planet!
Adventure
A Mechjam 2021 game
Action
MechArcade , A game made for 3 game jams
Shooter
Pilot a mech to save your colony
Action
Capture the escaping prisoners with your patrol mech
Action
Defend your mech!
Shooter
Small but accurate mech attack simulator.
Simulation
Pilot an experimental PEPpeR mech on a mission to rejuvenate the Abandoned Planet
Strategy
Aliens are attacking! Bring out the mechas!
Action
Wave-based and turn-based Mech piloting.
Strategy
Wreck the neighborhood with a robot cat.
Action
Eradicate all life. Preserve structures. Prepare for warp.
Platformer
VR Mech destruction playground
Simulation
For the first time, forces will join in this duo of a mech and a human to defeat a maniac
Platformer
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Blast Apart your friends or challenge a boss, please watch your head.
Fighting
Smash the enemy with your mech!
Action
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MekaFighters is a retro-stylized third-person shooter where you take control of a Meka Rider and their Meka.
Shooter